Top stories concerning British Isles ancestral research from Irish born Scottish based professional family historian, author and tutor Chris Paton. Feel free to quote from this blog, but please credit British GENES if you do so. Should you wish to get in touch, contact me at christopherpaton @ tiscali.co.uk. Happy hunting!

Essentially, three bills have now been introduced to restrict access to its contents to prevent fraudulent misuse of the data - read why American politicians seem unable to grasp the plot on Judy's post!